I installed Potato from CDs, and have since done an apt-get dist-upgrade to woody, and have been following woody since (with apt-get upgrade and install as needed when new packages arrived). I've recently noticed that I appear to be using X version 4.1, as shown by this partial output from dpkg -l:
ii xdm 4.1.0-11 X display manager ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-11 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure ii xfs 4.1.0-11 X font server ii xlib6g 4.1.0-11 pseudopackage providing X libraries ii xlibs 4.1.0-11 X Window System client libraries ii xserver-common 4.1.0-11 files and utilities common to all X servers ii xserver-common-v3 3.3.6-42 files and utilities common to XFree86 3.x X ii xserver-svga 3.3.6-42 X server for SVGA graphics cards ii xterm 4.1.0-11 X terminal emulator ii xutils 4.1.0-11 X Window System utility programs ii xvfb 4.1.0-11 virtual framebuffer X server I figured that the two v 3.3.6 packages (note that I've added the "-v3" to the appropriate line, that was quite confusing for a while) were obsolete, and deleted them (while X was not running). Ha! xdm wouldn't start! I put them back and now all is well again. It appears that xdm was trying to start /etc/X11/X which is a symlink to /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA, which comes from xserver-svga v 3.3.6. So, all is working again, but I think I'm running some weird 3.3.6/4.1 crossbreed which worries me. I'd like to be able to get rid of the 3.3.6 stuff. My video card is an NVIDIA Riva TNT Model 64, which 3 didn't support directly (hence the svga). Does 4 support this directly, and how do I configure it to use it? Thanks!
